CORRESPONDENCE.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11485, 19 January 1903, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE.

"A I>EOCH-AN-DORUIS." TO THS EDITOB OF THE PRESS. Sir,—Under the above heading of your issue of 13th, you infer that Gaelic phrase, "Deooh-an-doruis'' (and which you erroneously, but pardonably, spelt ,- doch-an-dorras") is a parting glass ol more than ordinary size. Writing as a Highlander, and with some considerablo knowledge of tihe language, the meaning of the above phrase ds a stirrup-cup, and, as far as 1 know, was not meant to be of more than ordinary sire, and was usually partaken of more as a to_en of continuous and lasting friendship. I would not have written the.«e lines were it not that I wish to preserve with jealous care the purity of the old language onoe. spoken in Eden. I can aj*ure you, Mr Editor, That if on any future occasion you have to use tbe above Gaelic pnra*e in your ed.torial oolumns, you need not be under any trepidation as to the spelling of it, for you can now write it la-rge, for I give it you in the original vernacular, and. further, the following fel-low-phrase, '"Deoch ni'eoiais oit," which means, 'May we be be:ter acquainted. Apologising for thus trespassing. —Yours, etc., LUOIO-XOS-URO.